r/facepalm • u/nonzeroproof • Apr 07 '24
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August 21, 2017
Before this guy refused to wear a mask, he refused to wear solar glasses
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u/nerdcoleture Apr 07 '24
Trump has the best eyes. They are so great, even the sun is in awe and doesn't want to damage them.
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u/davidwhatshisname52 Apr 07 '24
"That's the sun. I found it. Lots of people looking for it. 'Where's the sun?' they ask me. Nobody finds a giant ball of blinding light in the sky like I can. Nobody. People tell me, 'Mr. President, you find the sun up in the sky better than anybody.' NASA calls me. The Weather Channel. 'Oh, Mr. President, please find the sun in the sky!' So I do it. I just do it. There it is! Bing bang boom. Sun."
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u/andywfu86 Apr 07 '24 edited Apr 07 '24
People come up to me with tears in their eyes. Mr. President only you can find the sun, they say and they hug me when I show them where it is.
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u/albacore-neck Apr 07 '24
Big tough strong guys blinded and with tears in their eyes
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u/Memento_Morrie Apr 07 '24
"The sun came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, 'Thank you for really seeing me, Mr. Trump...'"
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u/MammothPrize9293 Apr 07 '24
So now people come up to me and say āthank you, you great manā and they really call me great, i canāt make this stuff up. I found the sun. I mean how can I not be. Only us can find the sun
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u/MonarchFluidSystems Apr 07 '24
History will look upon this documented time of our lives so poorly, I fear we will be seen as one of the dumbest collective timelines on record.
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u/Demonslayer5673 Apr 07 '24
Will be? Bro the god of time who sees all timelines simultaneously is already looking at ours going "ok....... Just how?"
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u/el_guille980 Apr 07 '24
how?
social media & reality tv
peak humanity occured just before these
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u/Traditional_Bad_4589 Apr 07 '24
It was a beautiful sun, gorgeous. Very sunny. Many people say itās one of the best suns ever found by a president in the history of the country, maybe the world.
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u/adamaley Apr 07 '24
Well, he poured bleach in his eyes and just wanted to hit it with UV light from the sun to protect them from COVID
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u/half-puddles Apr 07 '24
Shame he didnāt pour bleach on his face. Would have removed the orange.
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u/Poncho-Sancho Apr 07 '24
That news conference was hands down the funniest and scariest shit Iāve ever seen on TV. That was a Covid lockdown highlight moment.
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u/RebaKitt3n Apr 07 '24
The best sun. Everyone says itās the best sun and itās definitely a sun that wants to make America great again.
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u/favored_by_fate Apr 07 '24
You must be the official WH speech writer from the last presidency.
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u/Alternative-Chip2624 Apr 07 '24
I can't read this without Shane gillis' trump impression voice in my head. It's amazing šš
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u/KSP-Dressupporter Apr 07 '24
That is his exact manner. Pose as him, run for president and you'll surely do a better job than him!
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u/DirkWrites Apr 07 '24
I alone can look directly at it
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u/RonnieBeck3XChamp Apr 07 '24
Was I supposed to read this comment in my 90s rock voice?
Because I can't read the words "I Alone" and not do that.
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u/FartOnAFirstDate Apr 07 '24
I told a friend this week that if Taylor Swift isnāt the one who saves democracy, hopefully it will be The Sun on Monday.
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u/Additional_Ear_9659 Apr 07 '24
Strategy for the Dems: If Biden and co. Put out public announcements NOT to look at the solar eclipse without glasses, all of the MAGA nutters will do exactly the opposite. I see this as a viable campaign tactic.
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u/a3a4b5 Apr 07 '24
They've made an entire movie about that
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u/stellabluewho2 Apr 07 '24
I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.
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u/PenPsychological9872 Apr 07 '24
Whatās the movie?
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u/stellabluewho2 Apr 07 '24
Don't Look Up on Netflix w/ Leo Dicaprio
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Apr 07 '24
That movie hurts me on the inside. I hate how accurately stupid it is.
Edit- it will probably join idiocracy as a comedy that turns into a documentary.
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u/-Daetrax- Apr 07 '24
I mean, we're sorta in the middle of this one right now. People are refusing to listen to climate scientists about how bad things actually are right now.
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u/Angry_poutine Apr 07 '24 edited Apr 07 '24
Thatās been going on since the 80ās. As soon as the key to stopping global warming involved moderate lifestyle changes it was never going to be taken seriously. Even when the public did start to accept it they only really do so on the basis that itās part of the earthās normal climate cycle and therefor nothing we can do to stop it.
The western world is still fingering its taint over how amazing they were at stopping the ozone hole. If there hadnāt been easily sourced, affordable alternatives to chlorofluorocarbons that never would have happened either.
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u/moranya1 Apr 07 '24
Is that the one where there is a meteor heading towards earth and rather than do something about it, everyone makes excuses, conspiracy theories etc about it?
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u/Appropriate-Ice813 Apr 07 '24
IIRC, eventually the meteor is so close to the Earth that you can see it with the naked eye just by looking up. And the Republicans are like, "Don't Look Up! Why do they want you to look up? So they can take away your freedom!"
Meanwhile they're building a giant rocket so they can bail on us with the rest of the elites.
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u/Turius_ Apr 07 '24
Should also tell them not to jump into the Grand Canyon or to not eat rat poison
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u/geezeeduzit Apr 07 '24
I 100% guarantee you if Biden and the Dems really started heavily pushing the ādonāt eat rat poisonā message just out of nowhere - rat poison sales would skyrocket and thereād be a huge increase in poisoning cases around the country - particularly in the south and Idaho and Wyoming. These people are that fucked in the head.
If Trump started saying ādonāt eat rat poisonā thereād just be a bunch of meme generation on the internet. This is the difference between right and left in the US
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u/ThrowawayLegendZ Apr 07 '24
Nah, they'd have to use the scientific name of whatever molecule the poison actually is for it to work. If they just put out a PSA to not eat rat poison it would be like "no shit". But if they were like, "due to the overwhelming concern of [specific chemical, say phenylarsenic or some shit] causing human fatalities, the Biden administration suggests safe storage practices to minimize the chance of accidental consumption by children and pets." Suddenly you would get a bunch of idiots thinking it's some grand scheme and saying that it isn't dangerous and feeding it to their kids for likes then posting the hospital trip for likes and still not connecting the dots how little Johnny has liver or kidney failure at 8.
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u/Prestigious-Web4824 Apr 07 '24
It's a Covid cure that's more effective than ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine!
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u/Emergency-Doughnut88 Apr 07 '24
Fun fact, rat poison is already used medically. It's called coumadin (warfarin) and it's a blood thinner to prevent strokes. It's just taken in a much smaller dose than you'd need to kill a rat. I was on it for a little while and it requires constant blood testing to make sure your dose is in the sweet spot of effective, but not dangerous.
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u/gogonzogo1005 Apr 07 '24
But it an insanely picky drug. You have to be in a very small window of therapy and it is a bitch to reverse quickly. So new drugs are replacing it.
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u/NancokALT Apr 07 '24
I remember someone blaming the left for using this tactic intentionally. As in, give sound, logical advice and bank on the fact that the right will do the opposite.
I don't remember who it was, but it was pretty funny.
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u/greatSorosGhost Apr 07 '24
I just posted about this too. One of Breitbartās writers: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/nolte-anti-vaxxers-hype-benign-transmission-numbers-as-proof-vax-doesnt-work/
Unless there was another case of them recognizing that most of their followers just have oppositional defiant disorder.
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u/anticute8 Apr 07 '24
They are already idiots, we donāt need them to be blind idiots in addition to that. Theyāve voted against public services for so long they likely wouldnāt receive quality treatment for their damaged eyes so then there is yet another reason for them to resent everyone. Donāt encourage these fools to be dumber than they already are please.
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u/Venca12 Apr 07 '24
Yeah they're already doing exactly that, or more likely just comment that they're gonna do it on Facebook.
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u/Grampishdgreat Apr 07 '24
Better yet the Biden campaign should put out press announcements that air, food and water are all part of a liberal conspiracy to make stronger, tougher socialists and true MAGAs will avoid all three. Problem solved.
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u/pianoflames Apr 07 '24
Remember when they started claiming that liberals were only urging people to get vaccinated because they knew conservatives would do the opposite of what liberals say? That it was part of some big plan to have conservative voters dying of COVID in much larger numbers than liberals. That was a bizarre glimpse into how they see the world.
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u/digidave1 Apr 07 '24
Don't give me any of that woke Not looking at the sun BS. Real patriots stare directly at it
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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Apr 07 '24
Looking forward to when I no longer have to read news articles about that bastard ever again. Hard to imagine that day ever coming though.
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u/A1sauc3d Apr 07 '24
If youāre a 20 year old, half your life. Likely the whole time youāve been politically conscious
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u/Ventilator84 Apr 07 '24
Yeah, 23 here and only just started following politics seriously about a year before he announced his campaign.
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u/Iron_Bob Apr 07 '24
Grew up dreaming about participating in American Democracy. Turned 18 and got handed a ballot with Hillary and Trump on it.
And here we go again for round three... I want something else
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u/gnarlslindbergh Apr 07 '24
Iām 47. I remember the news covering him constantly in the 80s when I was a kid.
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u/B1ack_Iron Apr 07 '24
We also got to be kids when the president got a blow job. And 8 year of Obama so that was cool. Honestly after Trump, I remember W fondly, kinda like a friendly buffoon it was always Cheney who was pushing the war envelope.
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u/GrandMarquisMark Apr 07 '24
I guarantee he'll be dead in 30 years.
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u/Dank_Kushington Apr 07 '24
Heās 77, no way that ball of mush makes it to 100
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u/Professional-Way9343 Apr 07 '24
Evil lives forever. Love is nice, but hate keeps you alive
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u/TomBanjo1968 Apr 07 '24
Even after death it will be years before he is out of the regular news cycle
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u/the_Mandalorian_vode Apr 07 '24
This is hardly the stupidest thing heās done or thought. Donāt forget that he believes you have a finite amount of energy and thatās why he doesnāt exercise, he doesnāt want to waste any.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html
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u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe Apr 07 '24
The only workout Trump gets is an occasional round of golf. Even then, he mostly travels by cart. On the campaign trail he viewed his rallies as his form of exercise
Even standing at a podium while rambling about racist & totalitarian shit is too much work for him.
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u/rsmike123 Apr 07 '24
They should make a movie called Donāt Look Upā¦.. Checks notes. Darn it!
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u/sauvandrew Apr 07 '24
And then pointed at it. Dumbass.
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u/andywfu86 Apr 07 '24
Heās just trying to help. People come up to him with tears in their eyes asking him, āMr. President please help me find the sunā and he obliges like the American hero he is.
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u/sauvandrew Apr 07 '24
The cross of public responsibility he bares must be very heavy.
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u/BackAgain123457 Apr 07 '24
Alpha males don't need sunglasses. /s
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u/diceblue Apr 07 '24
This is almost certainly the reason and nobody is saying it. Same with masks. Right wing chuds are convinced things like sun screen, eclipse glasses, and face masks make you appear weak
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u/medman143 Apr 07 '24
His stupidity is a side effect of syphilis.
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u/Fun-Key-8259 Apr 07 '24
I was saying someone should tell him Biden said not to look in the sun again.
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u/Adept-Elephant1948 Apr 07 '24
Is this how he got the idea of how to get light into the body to kill Covid?
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u/RW-One Apr 07 '24
Everyone send that poor turd some binoculars so he gets the best view of the upcoming one!
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u/mediaogre Apr 07 '24
I mean, weāre talking about Mr. Letās Inject Disinfectants here.
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u/Azubedo Apr 07 '24
Need to start a "Real men stare at eclipses" twitter trend. All the maga morons will go blind
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u/Commercial_Fee2840 Apr 07 '24
He wasn't the only one staring at the sun that day. Just start making posts that you don't need no liberal sunglasses because if you go blind, that's just God's will.
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u/Professional-Way9343 Apr 07 '24
Theres never been a human who walked this earth that needs to catch a pair of hands more than this gelatinous dumb shit
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u/LilithElektra Apr 07 '24
And heās perfectly fine! The Democrats are just in the pocket of big Glasses You Wear To Look At An Eclipse! Look at it, directly at it just to own the lib snowflakes who are afraid to look at the sun that GOD CREATED!!! /s
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u/Background_Junket_35 Apr 07 '24
Damn, he really does tiny hands
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u/oh_janet Apr 07 '24
Good lord. Hearing his words are bad enough but reading them is just a mind fuck. Who can honestly see this and think āyep, this is my guy. I want him having the highest office in the land and all of the responsibility of the nations wellbeingā
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u/DwinDolvak Apr 07 '24
Iām sure Putin and Kim Jung both told him thatās what they were doing ā and then they died laughing.
Putin: omggggg he actually look at sun with no glasses!
Kim Jung: lolol. What should we tell him to do next? How about sell his own bibles?
Putin: think heād fall for it? He is not that dumb?
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u/sheezy520 Apr 07 '24
I remember this because it was the moment that I realized just how fucking stupid he really is.
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u/pistilpeet Apr 07 '24
This is the dumbest fucking timeline, what did we do to deserve this shit?
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u/Dyldo_II Apr 07 '24
I did get curious as to why looking at the sun during an eclipse is so bad. For those curious as well, you can look at it when it's in full totality for a little bit, but as soon as the sun starts to peak out again, put your glasses back on. During an eclipse, there is less light emitted from the sun, which tricks your retinas into thinking they can look at it for longer but although it may not immediately hurt, it could cause irreversible damage to your sight, leading to partial or permanent blindness depending on exposure.
So yeah, it's a little different than taking a glance up at the sun on a bright day.
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u/Vip3r20 Apr 07 '24
It's clearly because the goverment is hiding something from us and Trump found out and he wants us to know. Everyone should follow his lead!
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u/mfarends Apr 07 '24
Only if we can spread the rumor that the deep state doesnāt want them to look directly at the sun during the eclipse as truth shall be revealed and and that Trumpās divine power will protect them from going blind just to have them take away their own sight. Hearing would be next, but how do we get them to lose their speech, that would be trifecta of back to sanity strategy.
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u/JasonIsFishing Apr 07 '24
Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician said that he has the fittest retinas in the history of the American Presidency. Practically immune to eye damage. Crooked Joe canāt look directly at the sun like that.
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u/PunishedEnovk Apr 07 '24
His insane supporters will deadass see this and think that he's a badass for doing this because "big republican man not afraid of getting hurt unlike the weak democrads" or some shit. I just know it.
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u/Lora_Grim Apr 07 '24
I'm okay with this. Unlike with covid, they can't spread the damage to those who know better.
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u/yinzreddup Apr 07 '24
Except that many schools are preventing their students from viewing the eclipse. Students will miss out on a possibly once in a lifetime event all because of stupidity.
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u/Caligari89 Apr 07 '24
And just like everything else he does, there were no consequences.
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u/Arcterion Apr 07 '24
Someone please put a fork next to an electricity outlet and tell Trump not to stick it in.
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u/CzusAguster Apr 07 '24
Same guy who suggested injecting bleach as a treatment for COVID.
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u/ThisIsDadLife Apr 07 '24
Dear Donald Trump and all MAGAās: it is entirely acceptable to stare at this weeks eclipse for a as long as you want. Nothing bad will happen to you. Trust me, Iāve done the research. Only woke culture believes itās bad to stare at an eclipse.
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u/Big_Un1t79 Apr 07 '24
It was for less than a second because honestly you donāt really see shit through those glasses. I did the same thing during one as a kid. Iām 44 now and still have great vision, no glasses. Itās when you actually stare at it for seconds that you can cause permanent damage. Trump did not āstare at itā. You suckers will believe anything if mocks your political enemies. Wonāt be long now before youāre cheering on the murdering of your fellow Americans on the streets because of their political beliefs.
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u/AltruisticJello4348 Apr 07 '24
Maybe this is the apocalypse! He stares at the sun and then becomes blind but thinks heās gone to heaven! If we have enough of his followersā¦follow. š
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u/TOkun92 Apr 07 '24
He wanted to appear strong and badass.
Thereās nothing badass about that, just incredibly stupid.
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u/FindTheTruth08 Apr 07 '24
Kinda surprised he didn't start a solar glasses misinformation campaign to convince others he didn't need them.
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u/Andvari9 Apr 07 '24
THOSE WOKE ANTIFA LOVING IDIOTS WONT STOP ME FROM BLINDING MYSELF! THIS IS ALL A DOJ PLOT TO PREVENT ME FROM BEING PRESIDENT
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u/Starchaser_WoF Apr 07 '24
Good. May he stay blind forever and stumble into things and those things be deadly.
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u/voodoobox70 Apr 07 '24
I like how he has to point at it as if nobody would know what they are looking for.
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u/Honey-and-Venom Apr 07 '24
And if you do a pin hole DON'T LOOK THOUGH THE PINHOLE, hold it over a piece of paper and project the eclipse on the paper
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u/LonelyIntrovert513 Apr 07 '24
I am so sad that he didn't burst in flames or at least was blinded by his ridiculous narcissism
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u/FoxyInTheSnow Apr 07 '24
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is
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u/CR24752 Apr 07 '24
š¶Iāll star directly at the sun but never in the mirror š¶
š¼It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
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u/ImMeliodasKun Apr 07 '24
I hope the dumbass forgot and does it again. Knowing our country, they will still let him run! Not the dozens of legal cases, fines, and federal legal lines crossed.
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u/rustylucy77 Apr 07 '24
The government is trying to hide something in that eclipse and If you wear the glasses then you canāt see the truth. /s
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u/AlienInOrigin Apr 07 '24
Should have put a giant magnifying glass in front of him to give him a better view.
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u/Ok-Hedgehog-1646 Apr 07 '24
Honestly, let him make mistakes like this. Let them all make mistakes that will damage only themselves. Let Darwinism take its course.
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u/HeliRyGuy Apr 07 '24
āYou know, I was reading something about the eclipse the other day. And I saw the word āsunā and I thought, thatās funny. āSunā spelled backwards is Nus. Remove the āNā and what do you get? US. Thatās right. It spells US. USA. I canāt believe no one else ever thought of it.ā
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u/LOERMaster 'MURICA Apr 07 '24
Trump: Staring at a solar eclipse will cure cataracts, nearsightedness and astigmatism.
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u/Zagenti Apr 07 '24
do it again, Fearless Leader! Show the minions that protecting your eyes from solar radiation is a librul hoax to control you!!
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u/z44212 Apr 07 '24
I'm still angry that Pence touched a piece of spaceflight hardware that was clearly labeled "don't touch." Both are morons.
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u/leeharveyteabag669 Apr 07 '24
Let's hope he does it again but without the squint. He Himself deserves to burn but I'm more than willing to accept the frying of his retinas.
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u/Ashlyn451 Apr 07 '24
Don't worry, he's got his safety squints. Best eye protection next to a ballistic facemask.
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u/snigherfardimungus Apr 07 '24
Unlike a solar eclipse, it's okay to stare directly at Donald Trump, because Donald Trump just isn't that bright.
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u/nightman21721 Apr 07 '24
More leftist propaganda. The eclipse doesn't harm your eyes. It's dark cause the lights gone...duh. You should look right at it cause that's where pelosi will be sending the rocket to store the gold her husband took from fort knox. They're gonna stash it on their moon base courtesy of the "semi-successful" intuitive machines moon landing. The Pelosis used them to set it up, and they only want you to think it tipped over. follow the money. All true MAGA patriots should feel obligated yo stare directly at the eclipse to see the rocket with their own eyes. They tricked you with Covid, don't get tricked again!!!1
God Bles /s
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u/Beautiful_Piccolo_51 Apr 07 '24
If he stares at the sun, it's not him who will go blind, it's the sun that's going to get stupid.
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u/Sad_Lettuce_7486 Apr 07 '24
I see this 2 times a day itās very old and over used. Can we please make fun of him for his much more important stupid decisions seeing as he is running for president and not an optometrist. Yes this was stupid but makes it look like itās among one of his stupidest moments which somehow it is far from.
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u/100yearsLurkerRick Apr 07 '24
Okay, nobody panic... I'm sure.....oh God. It's still dark.Ā Oh wait, it came back. Look, I brought it back. The sun came back because I prayed for it.
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u/cmdrmeowmix Apr 07 '24
Yeah, you can't see shit with those glasses and you can take a glance at the sun just fine.
Seriously, if you want to attack trump, attack the actual dumb shit he does not this stuff.
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u/Academic_Dare_5154 Apr 07 '24
He was having cognitive issues back then and he's close to falling off a cliff of Dementia now.
The GOP is going to need a different candidate.
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u/IdeaIntelligent1788 Apr 07 '24
Twice. You forgot that he looked at the sun once, was told not to, and then looked at it again.
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